Living Soviet in Ukraine from Stalin to Maidan : Under the Falling Red Star in Kharkiv.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (253 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Note on Transliterations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Lived Environment, Lived History: Kharkiv and the Academy -- Chapter Three. Men and the Military: "New Soviet Military Men" -- Chapter Four. Women and Gender: "That's Women's Work!" -- Chapter Five. Ethnicity and Nationality: "My Address Is the Soviet Union!"1 -- Chapter Six. Religion: "Ours Is the Religion ofOur Grandmothers" -- Chapter Seven. Conclusions: Living Soviet -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. Interviewees -- Appendix B. Questionnaire for First-Round Interviews1 -- Appendix C. Questionnaire for Follow-Up Interviews -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Focusing on a group of military colonels and their families in Karkhiv, Ukraine, this book examines the experience of citizens living in the U.S.S.R. It describes their shifting social, cultural, and political realities and explores how ideological, professional, gender, and national imperatives were internalized, transformed, or rejected.
9781498523417
Soldiers--Ukraine--Kharkiv--Interviews. Soldiers--Family relationships--Ukraine--Kharkiv--History--20th century. Communism--Social aspects--Ukraine--Kharkiv--History--20th century. Ethnicity--Political aspects--Ukraine--Kharkiv--History--20th century. Social change--Ukraine--Kharkiv--History--20th century. Interviews--Ukraine--Kharkiv. Oral history--Ukraine--Kharkiv. Kharkiv (Ukraine)--Social life and customs--20th century. Kharkiv (Ukraine)--Social conditions--20th century. Kharkiv (Ukraine)--Biography.